About Us
beAutomated is a web development company located in San Jose, California that specializes in building custom plugins that add unique features and functionality to WordPress powered sites. |
Testimonials
“I would highly recommend beAutomated for updating a website and website programming. They are very proficient at what they do, starting with the detailed written plan of action to their rather speedy yet solid programming work. They are very thorough in their work and great in QA. I am very pleased with the work they’ve done for me.”
~ Paul Hillig, Top Notch Seats
“beAutomated was able to expand both the functionality and design of the wine entering process for our competition website. They were wonderfully easy to work with and were able to quickly understand the goals of our project. And when we had questions, they were able to answer them and suggest the best solution to meet our needs.”
~ Marc Berger, Riverside International Wine Competition |
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What’s in a Phone Number?
Today’s topic is an example demonstrating the difference between requirements (marketing based) and specifications (engineering based). We have a simple example of one form field, where we’re adding a telephone number to the User Profile panel in the WordPress back end. We’ve often come across requirements like this where what appears to be a simple task becomes a bit more involved once we work on converting our client’s requirements into engineering specifications adequate for building robust software.
We typically start out with obtaining basic requirements from our prospective clients to understand the scope of their project concept. We want to ensure there is a designer involved, or somebody qualified to make design decisions when they come up. On the back end (wp-admin) we generally stick to the design conventions already there, though there may still be design implications requiring a designer’s input. Once we have all the requirements on the table and design mockups ready, we then ask questions that move us towards specifications, adequate for estimating cost and timeline for production.
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Our Tribute to Steve Jobs
Yesterday the technology community lost a hero. Steve Jobs was an iconic leader for marketing and innovation. His legacy remains alive and well at Apple, throughout the industry, and here at our little start-up business, beAutomated. Steve Jobs’ legacy comes into our operation in a number of ways, including…
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Hear us on Your Website Engineer Episode 44!
Randy and I were return call-in guests on a popular WordPress podcast that aired Oct 5, 2011. Listen to us discuss the WordPress API with Dustin Hartzler of Your Website Engineer on episode 44.
Your Website Engineer has served many thousands of downloads to the WordPress community and ranks within the top 10 when one searches for the term “WordPress” within the Apple iTunes Store. This episode marks Dustin’s 44th podcast on how to build your own quality website and runs for approximately 40 minutes.
In this episode we discuss WordPress Plugin Strategy, a comprehensive overview of how WordPress is intended to be extended with plugins via the WordPress API.
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